There is something terribly morbid
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
– Oscar Wilde
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- The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde
- I know, of course,how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. – Oscar Wilde
- To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. – Oscar Wilde
- One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde
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- Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde
- The secret of life is in art. – Oscar Wilde
- If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde
- If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde
- I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde